Test 7 · Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, m…

A shark bites at a small fish's tail, where a big round spot is, and the fish shoots away the other way. What happened?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shark, fish · What happens: bite, be, shoot away, happen · To what, where: tail, other way

This is test 7 of lesson 173 «Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

Sentence 1: A shark bites at a small fish's tail, where a big round spot is, and the fish shoots away the other way.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 shark	det
2	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bites	nsubj
3	bites	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	9 tail	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fish	det
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fish	amod
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tail	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 fish	case
9	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bites	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 is	punct
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 is	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 spot	det
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 spot	amod
14	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 spot	amod
15	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 is	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 tail	cop
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 shoots	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 shoots	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fish	det
20	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shoots	nsubj
21	shoots	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bites	conj
22	away	away	ADV	_	21 shoots	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 way	det
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 way	amod
25	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shoots	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bites	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bite	present	a shark				vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	a shark not said here		a small fish's tail		tree rules
3	shoot away	present	the fish	the other way		away property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Sentence 2: What happened?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

The shark was not hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shark	det
2	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hungry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hungry	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 hungry	advmod
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the shark					hungry property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The fake eye spot fooled the shark about which end was the head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spot	det
2	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spot	amod
3	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spot	compound
4	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fooled	nsubj
5	fooled	fool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shark	det
7	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 head	nsubj
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shark	nmod
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 head	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 head	det
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fooled	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fool	past	the fake eye spot						vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the shark about which end	the head					tree rules

Option 3

The spot is a real eye that saw the shark coming from behind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 spot	det
2	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eye	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 eye	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 eye	det
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eye	amod
6	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 eye	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shark	det
10	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obj
11	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 shark	acl
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 behind	case
13	behind	behind	ADV	_	11 coming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	the spot	a real eye	tree rules
2	see	past	a real eye	the shark	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shark=Stimulus
3	come	gerund	the shark not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from behind=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The fish was too hard to bite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hard	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hard	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 hard	advmod
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 bite	mark
7	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hard	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the fish					hard property	tree rules
2	bite	to-infinitive	the fish not said here						vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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